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Friday, February 6, 2015

Domestic Violence Group Calls For Boycott Of ‘50 Shades Of Grey’ Film Citing Abusive Sexual Relationship

50 Shades Of Grey

ABC News affiliates are reporting on television that there is
a campaign to boycott the forthcoming film “50 Shades Of Grey.”
The Independent newspaper reports, the hash tags
#50dollarsnot50shades and #50ShadesIsAbuse is being spread on
popular social networking site Twitter by Stop Porn Culture, the
London Abused Women Centre and the National Center on Sexual
Exploitation.

50 Shades Of Grey

The groups want the public to donate the $50 they would spend
going to see the movie to domestic violence charities stating,
“Hollywood doesn‘t need your money; abused women do.” The
campaign further stated, “Hollywood is advertising the Fifty
Shades story as an erotic love affair, but it is really about
sexual abuse and violence against women” and “this book (and
film) romanticizes a perpetrator of abuse.” Many critics have
deemed the relationship in the book and subsequent film abusive.
The movie has 20-minutes worth of sex scenes that are being
described as porn.